Ballet Quotes - Page 24

• In a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a cour de ballet.

  Misty Copeland

  Trying, Uniforms, Unison

  "Misty Copeland Seeks To Inspire Other African-American Dancers". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. July 1, 2015.

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• I wanted to be a dancer from when I was about nine or something like that and started ballet. I used to really like it and got into it and did it full time for a couple of years. I did a lot of ballet but I traded that in for acting when I was about 15.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Couple, Years, Dancer

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In ballet, I felt that no matter how good I was, if I didn't have the right body type or if I didn't fit a certain mold there was nothing I could do.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Body Types, Mold, Matter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Wrestling used to be interesting. There was a bit of sham involved, of course, but there was some real wrestling involved. They're just characters now. It's unrecognizable. There's no fighting in American bloody wrestling. They just yell at each other and jump around like overweight ballet dancers.

  Shane MacGowan

  Real, Character, Wrestling

  Source: shanemacgowan.com

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• Russian culture is multifaceted and diverse. So if you want to understand, to feel Russia, then of course you need to read books, Tolstoy and Chekhov and Gogol and others. Listen to music. Tchaikovsky. Watch our classical ballet. But the most important thing is that you need to talk with people.

  Vladimir Putin

  Book, People, Important

  "Putin Discusses Trump, OPEC, Rosneft, Brexit, Japan". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. September 5, 2016.

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• Basketball is at its best when you have athletes in space making plays. It's the same for soccer, you have great athletes in space making plays and that's when the game becomes beautiful. You have spacing and skill and coaching. It's all synergetic. You don't have to be a basketball fan to appreciate that. You can be a person who appreciates movement. It's almost like a ballet at that point.

  Shane Battier

  Basketball, Beautiful, Soccer

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• Well, that's why I really love Diego Della Valle, because he's crazy. Instead of going out to find a top business school graduate, for whom it would have taken five years to see the difference between a ballet shoe and a book, he asked me to revive the label. It's a bit like Balenciaga. Brands like Vivier are pillars - they are monuments of fashion; they are names we don't forget. But the general public doesn't necessarily know that and therefore we had to get the name re-known.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Fashion, Crazy, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My mom always wanted me be a ballerina, and I was just adamant that I wanted to be a track star. I wanted nothing to do with ballet.

  Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

  Mom, Stars, Track

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Do ballet and play football. Sing and dance. Laugh and cry.

  Michael Skolnik

  Football, Play, Laughing

  "Global Grind Editor Michael Skolnik". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I thought I'm going to die. So why can't I do everything? And what is this idea that I worked all day yesterday, so I'm tired today? I've never believed that.I thought, "Just suppose I could choreograph a ballet." And I did it. Suppose I could teach dance at the theater in Cleveland. And I did it. Suppose I could sing for a living - that I could stop these two jobs as a waitress and a salesperson.

  Maya Angelou

  Jobs, Tired, Ideas

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• Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool reading 'U.S. Weekly.' I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken.

  Meg Cabot

  Jobs, Yoga, Taken

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• I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied, that in ballet class you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable and I've had a connection to since the beginning.

  Jillian Hervey

  Ballet Class, Dancer, Listening

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities.

  Lucinda Childs

  Simple, Dull, Kind

  Source: www.kcet.org

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• We are going to set up a branch of the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre here [on the Far Easter]. We are also planning to open local branches of the Hermitage Museum and the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.

  Vladimir Putin

  Easter, Museums, Theatre

  Source: thesaker.is

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• My biggest downfall is my inner voice. Growing up as a dancer makes you very judgemental with yourself. You learn to look at yourself in the mirror and you criticise every line in your body. It's never perfect. I grew up with this because I had ballet every day in school.

  Carmen Electra

  Growing Up, School, Mirrors

  "Scary Movie 4 - Carmen Electra interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There were some parts of the film [Swiss Army Man] that the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] really wanted to look as elegant as a piece of ballet. As Hank and Manny go on in the story, they get better and better at being with each other and more and more adept - Hank knows more and more what Manny's going to need at any given point, and having that choreography helps a bit.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Army, Men, Get Better

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I got the part [in Into the Forest], I started taking ballet again to try to regain my strength back. I actually love that it was changed to Crystal Pite's modern dance. And I wouldn't even really call it modern dance because it feels like it's in its own genre.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Trying, Forests, Crystals

  Source: collider.com

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• I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do. My wife too. She's a ballet dancer, and she's known what she wanted to do since she was 5. My mother used to tell this story about how our TV set had been taken to be repaired, and back then, they took the set out of the console. So there was this empty console with an empty TV screen in it, and I would climb inside and be like, "I'm on TV!"

  Tim Matheson

  Mother, Taken, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I would create a dance, I wouldn't have the luxury that ballet people do when they take a piece of music and impose a dance upon it. What we did in motion pictures was have a song and within that song try to elaborate. My usual method was to do what a writer does: get a plot.

  Gene Kelly

  Song, Luxury, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Ballet has really helped me in every acting role. You have to be very disciplined, you have to be able to control your nerves and perform under pressure, and all those things you have to use in acting when you're on film or going for an audition.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Acting, Roles, Nerves

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which when I was 14 was a big deal.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Perfection, Achieve, Used

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

  Patrick Swayze

  Growing Up, Kids, Fighting

  "FOR YOUNG VIEWERS; Into Africa: Patrick Swayze's 19th-Century Eco Trip". Interview with Jody Alesandro, www.nytimes.com. June 6, 2004.

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• I am not an educated person. I didn't come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have a lot of inferiority feelings concerning my own lack of education, my entry into show business. I'm not a Baryshnikov. I'm not a Nureyev. I came up in vaudeville. Strippers. So I've always had these feelings. But I think they've also helped me.

  Bob Fosse

  Thinking, Feelings, Vaudeville

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• Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.

  Sondra Horton Fraleigh

  Skills, Intellectual, Substance

  Sondra Horton Fraleigh (1996). “Dance and the Lived Body: A Descriptive Aesthetics”, p.53, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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• I grew up learning ballet and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to be a ballet dancer when I was younger, but at a certain age, I really was more interested in acting.

  Elizabeth Debicki

  Dancer, Age, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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